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Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: 7 x 4.25, wraps, 182 pp, San Francisco hand stamp on fep, lacks dw, extremities a bit worn. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, William S.. The Soft Machine. Olympia, Paris, 1961.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The true first edition, published in Paris by Maurice Girodias' press five years before it came out in the U.S. This copy is inscribed by Burroughs: "For Bob Jackson/ all the best/ William Burroughs/ for Brion Gysin." Gysin designed the dust jacket. Modest foxing to pages edges and endpages; near fine in a near fine, mildly tanned dust jacket with rubbing to the folds. The first issue, with the 15 New Franc price on both the rear cover of the book and the front flap of the dust jacket. An influential book, part of the sequence that includes The Naked Lunch and The Ticket That Exploded. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.